The US House of Representatives has excluded the Lend-Lease for Ukraine from the draft military budget for 2025, Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States Oksana Markarova said on Thursday.
“It should be noted that this year’s NDAA bill passed by the Senate contained provisions to extend the Lend-Lease Act to protect democracy in Ukraine, and the Ukrainian Embassy in the United States actively advocated for this, but the bill passed by the House of Representatives did not contain such provisions,” she wrote on Facebook.
The Lend-Lease Act for Ukraine, which allows for accelerated arms transfers to Kyiv, was passed in May 2022. Now the US House of Representatives has excluded it from the draft military budget for 2025. The final decision will depend on the Senate.
In July this year, former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the newly elected US President Donald Trump could during his term develop a programme to loan or lease US arms, ammunition, strategic raw materials, and food to Ukraine for $500bn.
In December, Trump said that after the change of the US administration, Washington would probably reduce the volume of military aid to Kyiv.
